ACMI First Nations Film Club: Babakiueria

Don Featherstone | Australia | 1986 | PG | 29 minutes 

Rediscover this satirical classic and join us to celebrate the end of the year. Watch Babakiueria out on the Big Screen (open to all) from 6pm-6.30pm, followed by club drinks afterwards at Mabu Mabu (club members only) from 6.30pm-7.30pm.

Presented by ACMI.

About the film

Babakiueria is a drama pretending to be an ethnographic documentary examining the customs of the white natives of ‘Babakiueria’, from the perspective of the country’s black colonisers.

Babakiueria is named as a result of first contact between the colonisers and the natives. Arriving at a barbecue area, the settlers ask the locals, ‘What’s this place called?’. Presenter Duranga Manika (Michelle Torres) looks back at this moment and at white people’s place in contemporary Babakiuerian society. She also spends time with a ‘typical’ white family.

Visit here for more information: https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/first-nations-film-club/babakiueria/